Swami Vivekananda Quotes

1.Karma Yoga is a method of purifying the mind through work. ... All fear and all
desire to enjoy here or hereafter must be banished for ever by the Karma Yogi. The
karma without desire of return will destroy the selfishness, which is the root of
all bondage. The watchword of the Karma Yogi is "not I, but Thou," and no amount
of self-sacrifice is too much for such a person.

2.Renunciation, nonresistance, non-destructiveness--these are the ideals to be attained
through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness.
Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance,
without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when
the ideal can be realized in society.

3.Life is and must be accompanied by evil. A little evil is the source of life. The
little wickedness that is in the world is very good. For, when the balance is regained,
the world will end, because sameness and destruction are one. When this world goes,
good and evil go with it. When we transcend this world, we get rid of both goods
and evil, and have bliss.